Brain-eating amoeba searched for in tap water

Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times

After two people died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in 2011, CDC investigators visited the patients' homes and tested water samples to see if N. fowleri was present in their neti pots. They recorded results in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

After two people died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in 2011, CDC investigators visited the patients' homes and tested water samples to see if N. fowleri was present in their neti pots. They recorded results in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. (Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times)

After two people died of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in 2011, CDC investigators visited the patients' homes and tested water samples to see if N. fowleri was present in their neti pots. They recorded results in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.